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News: Why So Many Black People Are On Twitter
Member Since: 5/11/2010
Posts: 19,489
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Originally posted by jungle juice
It's not shade, sis. I'm not trying to be shady. The fact is, broadband internet is expensive in the US and not available in lot of urban neighborhoods.
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Member Since: 8/22/2009
Posts: 50,646
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Originally posted by Chris191
The article wasn't actually racist, calm your **** people.
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We disagree, and so do the obvious points of blatant racism in the article.
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Member Since: 8/28/2009
Posts: 7,345
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Originally posted by iLays
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lol, you alway write the funniest ****.
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Member Since: 10/26/2010
Posts: 12,889
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Originally posted by jungle juice
It's not shade, sis. I'm not trying to be shady. The fact is, broadband internet is expensive in the US and not available in lot of urban neighborhoods. Verizon FiOS is running through the ground in my suburb, but the city where my school is located (which is home to a lot of students, but also low-income families) has nothing but expensive and slow cable connections.
Getting an unlimited talk/text/web plan on your smartphone (especially with various retailers such as MetroPCS, etc) for around $40-50 a month is cheaper than paying for broadband internet.
And Twitter functions just as well on a cell phone as it does on a computer, but the same can't be said for Facebook.
Yes, the initial article is not written with the best taste, but race is real, people! So once we get past all the gifs and , maybe people can think about their response.
Or not.
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*Grabs Bible*
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Member Since: 10/4/2010
Posts: 5,607
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Originally posted by satellites™
This is racist, plain & simple.
1. I don't run out to buy new phones.
2. I have a macbook pro and I do not use the internet on my phone, never have!
3. I rarely ever use Twitter, I prefer Tumblr.
4. Various points made in this article were very racist and stereotypical.
5. Whoever wrote it can jump in a hole and die.
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After reading through it all youre actually right, both the quote and the OP's comments had definite slanted under tones mess
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ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 9/14/2010
Posts: 78,921
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Originally posted by Chris191
The article wasn't actually racist, calm your **** people But does it really matter what race makes up Twitter & why?
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It's racist to even wonder why there's so many black people on Twitter.
I'm guessing 'black people are supposed to be the minority because they're black', right?
Exactly...
Racist.
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Member Since: 5/8/2011
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How is this racist? researching I mean.
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Member Since: 9/23/2009
Posts: 26,796
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Since I'm black, I live in a low-income area without high speed internet, so I have to feed my Twitter addiction through my pre-paid Boost mobile phone. I also trend stupid **** on Twitter, of course, it's the n***as trending racially incentive **** about Arabs.
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Member Since: 3/18/2009
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I don't see why everyone is getting so huffy about this article. It's a sociological study that attempts to explain a sociological trend (why black people are using Twitter disproportionately). Their conclusion is reasonably possible, though not necessarily correct—but I don't see how it's racist.
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Member Since: 8/22/2009
Posts: 50,646
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Originally posted by Midnight
Sis, this mess reminds of the time that KKK member wrote that ******** "study" that basically called fans of Beyoncé & Lil' Wayne dumb, while classical music and rock listeners were the smartest tricks since Einstein.
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Let's not forget the article on psychologytoday.com about black women being less attractive than white women.
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Member Since: 5/28/2010
Posts: 29,225
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What is this mess?
Although those black-related hashtags get very irritating and people just use stereotypes when using those hashtags.
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Member Since: 11/2/2009
Posts: 19,838
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Originally posted by Entity
How is this racist? researching I mean.
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Why would anyone sit down and think "Damn, look at these ignorant trending topics. They must be black people. Lemme me go find out how many *****s on Twitter,"?
I see more people of other races making those dumb hash tags trend, and they tend to be use in a derogatory way.
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Member Since: 6/23/2011
Posts: 785
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Originally posted by Entity
How is this racist? researching I mean.
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It's not. Like I said, yes, the article is questionable. The facts are not. There's nothing wrong with researching race, demographics, and cultural differences.
This is something that is REAL in America.
I don't have receipts to show you, but it's no secret that broadband internet is expensive and not a reality for low-income families. Also, look no further than the commercials for Metro and Boost and other cell phone companies to see who they target. Are those commercials racist?
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Member Since: 5/8/2011
Posts: 3,738
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Originally posted by ifyouseekLEM
Since I'm black, I live in a low-income area without high speed internet, so I have to feed my Twitter addiction through my pre-paid Boost mobile phone. I also trend stupid **** on Twitter, of course, it's the n***as trending racially incentive **** about Arabs.
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I'm ****ing loving you, and I don't like that a lot of people here.
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Member Since: 3/13/2011
Posts: 5,886
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Originally posted by ifyouseekLEM
Since I'm black, I live in a low-income area without high speed internet, so I have to feed my Twitter addiction through my pre-paid Boost mobile phone. I also trend stupid **** on Twitter, of course, it's the n***as trending racially incentive **** about Arabs.
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Member Since: 4/7/2009
Posts: 34,961
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Originally posted by jungle juice
It's not shade, sis. I'm not trying to be shady. The fact is, broadband internet is expensive in the US and not available in lot of urban neighborhoods. Verizon FiOS is running through the ground in my suburb, but the city where my school is located (which is home to a lot of students, but also low-income families) has nothing but expensive and slow cable connections.
Getting an unlimited talk/text/web plan on your smartphone (especially with various retailers such as MetroPCS, etc) for around $40-50 a month is cheaper than paying for broadband internet.
And Twitter functions just as well on a cell phone as it does on a computer, but the same can't be said for Facebook.
Yes, the initial article is not written with the best taste, but race is real, people! So once we get past all the gifs and , maybe people can think about their response.
Or not.
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This board loves to test us..
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Member Since: 12/28/2010
Posts: 26,529
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races
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Member Since: 10/28/2009
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Originally posted by iLays
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Member Since: 12/17/2010
Posts: 10,073
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Quote:
Originally posted by jungle juice
It's not shade, sis. I'm not trying to be shady. The fact is, broadband internet is expensive in the US and not available in lot of urban neighborhoods. Verizon FiOS is running through the ground in my suburb, but the city where my school is located (which is home to a lot of students, but also low-income families) has nothing but expensive and slow cable connections.
Getting an unlimited talk/text/web plan on your smartphone (especially with various retailers such as MetroPCS, etc) for around $40-50 a month is cheaper than paying for broadband internet.
And Twitter functions just as well on a cell phone as it does on a computer, but the same can't be said for Facebook.
Yes, the initial article is not written with the best taste, but race is real, people! So once we get past all the gifs and , maybe people can think about their response.
Or not.
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You're digging yourself deeper and deeper
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Member Since: 11/7/2010
Posts: 5,164
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All they did was research, now what Jungle Juice said was a little racist, but the article just did research about Twitter & race, random, but not particularly racist...
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